Rajendra Singh

Rajendra Singh at [[Palakkad]] in April 2017. Rajendra Singh (born 6 August 1959) is an Indian water conservationist and environmentalist from Alwar district, Rajasthan in India. Also known as "waterman of India", he won the Magsaysay Award in 2001 and Stockholm Water Prize in 2015. He runs an NGO called 'Tarun Bharat Sangh' (TBS), which was founded in 1975. The NGO based in village hori-Bhikampura in Thanagazi tehsil, near Sariska Tiger Reserve, has been instrumental in fighting the slow bureaucracy, mining lobby and has helped villagers take charge of water management in their semi-arid area as it lies close to Thar Desert, through the use of johad, rainwater storage tanks, check dams and other time-tested as well as path-breaking techniques. Starting from a single village in 1985, over the years TBS helped build over 8,600 johads and other water conservation structures to collect rainwater for the dry seasons, has brought water back to over 1,000 villages and revived five rivers in Rajasthan, Arvari, Ruparel, Sarsa, Bhagani and Jahajwali. He is one of the members of the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) which was set up in 2009, by the Government of India as an empowered planning, financing, monitoring and coordinating authority for the Ganges (Ganga), in exercise of the powers conferred under the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986. In the UK he is a founder member of an NGO called [http://www.theflowpartnership.org the Flow Partnership] which aims to counter the negative effects of soil erosion and flooding. Provided by Wikipedia
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  1. 1
    by Singh, Rajendra
    Published 2001
    Allahabad : Agro-Economic Research Centre, University of Allahabad, 2001.
    ii, 147 p. ; 29 cm.
  2. 2
    by Singh, Rajendra
    Published 2000
    Allahabad : Agro-Economic Research Centre, University of Allahabad, 2000.
    v, 69 p. ; 30 cm.
  3. 3
    by Singh, Rajendra
    Published 1998
    Allahabad : Agro-Economic Research Centre, University of Allahabad, 1998.
    v, 109 p. ; 29 cm.
  4. 4
    by Singh, Rajendra, 1914-
    Published 1981
    [Imphal] : Directorate for Welfare of Tribal and Backward Classes, Manipur, c1981.
    xii, 108, [1] p., [21] leaves of plates : ill., 1 folded map ; 22 cm.
  5. 5
    by Singh, Rajendra, 1914-
    Published 1964
    New Delhi, Army Educational Stores, 1964.
    2, 442 p. illus. 19 cm.
  6. 6
    by Singh, Rajendra, 1914-
    Published 1964
    [n.p.] [1964]
    4, 122 p. 18 cm.
  7. 7
    by Singh, Rajendra, 1914-
    Published 1966
    [1966]
    vii, 118 p. 18 cm.
  8. 8
    by Singh, Rajendra Pal, 1932-
    Published 1970
    New Delhi, Arya Book Depot [1970]
    iii, 146 p. 22 cm.
  9. 9
    by Singh, Rajendra Pal, 1932-
    Published 1968
    Delhi, Sterling Publishers [1968]
    xiii, 114 p. 23 cm.
  10. 10
    by Singh, Rajendra Pal, 1932-
    Published 1980
    New Delhi : Bahri, 1980.
    104 p. ; 23 cm.
  11. 11
    by Singh, Rajendra Pal, 1932-
    Published 1997
    New Delhi : Centre for Contemporary Studies, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, 1997.
    46 p. ; 28 cm.
  12. 12
    by Singh, Rajendra Pal, 1932-
    Published 1966
    [1966]
    183, [1] p. illus. 23 cm.
  13. 13
    by Singh, Rajendra Pal, 1932-
    Published 1972
    New Delhi, Sterling Publishers [1972]
    138 p. 22 cm.
  14. 14
    by Singh, Rajendra Pal, 1932-
    Published 1969
    Delhi, National [Pub. House, 1969]
    xi, 186 p. 22 cm.
  15. 15
    by Singh, Rajendra Pal, 1932-
    Published 1978
    Naī Dillī : Pravīṇa Prakāśana, 1978.
    80 p. ; 19 cm.
  16. 16
    by Singh, Rajendra Pal, 1932-
    Published 1975
    1975.
    123 p. ; 19 cm.
  17. 17
    by Singh, Rajendra Pal, 1932-
    Published 1979
    Chandigarh : Bahri, 1979.
    90 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
  18. 18
    by Singh, Rajendra Pal, 1932-
    Published 1979
    New Delhi : National, 1979.
    139 p. ; 23 cm.
  19. 19
    Published 1970
    New Delhi] National Council of Educational Research and Training [1970]
    x, 167 p. 26 cm.
    Other Authors: ...Singh, Rajendra Pal, 1932-...

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